Environmental Flows
Moti Beach, Daman
Re-imagining built form
by Parth Agrawal and Gauri Shinde
Design Question
For almost a century the beach in Moti Daman has been inhabited by the fishing community who, over the course of time, made provisions to deal with the recurring floods. The promenade project added a beauty quotient to the area causing a disruption in the ecosystem around, The locals were made to swift their homes, the construction caused emergence of huge dunes and also caused the shut down of the drainage system. Though the promenade has its own benefits, it did cause a lot of disruption and damage such as rise in water levels causing floods during monsoons. This creates havoc in the nearby settlements, due to which the residents are migrating.
How can one think of making new built forms in order to make them resilient towards urban flood and sea level rise?
Site Demarcation
Site Transactions
Problems identified
New concrete buildings have raised plinth and some part of the plinth of older houses is now below the ground level and still there are issues with water been entering the houses and settlements. Water absorption is difficult as the concrete road is been built.
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Understanding the behavior and absorption of water entering in the settlement.
Program list
Adaptive inhabitations
Leisure
Public spaces
Animal shelters
Conceptual ideas
Raising the community as a whole with them being connected to the ground.
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Different levels in plinth to absorb water.
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Movable roof for light and ventilation
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Trying out different materials.
Design Plans
Site Plan
House Plan
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Roof Plan
Design Sections
Section AA'
Section BB'
Design Diagrams
Butterfly roof allowing maximum amount of light and air to enter the house.
Summer/ Winter Intervention
During summers or on regular days water body helps not only humans but also other species to drink the water . Since the summers are extremely hot in daman the modulating plinths allows cats, dogs and other species to take nap or rest within this space.
Women can use this space for doing few house chores like cutting vegetables or cleaning grains etc while doing same activities with other women this space helps more interactions between neighbours and more interaction with distinct species .
Children can use this place for playing as their is harsh sunlight during summers on open playgrounds .
Monsoon Intervention
Ground floor allowing water to enter and gets absorbed in the green patches within few hours and water gets stored and can be reused from the waterbody in the ground floor . Inspired by the idea of sharing , storing and using the resources since there were ancient step well used for similar concepts of water storing and reusing and sharing.
Space allowing the engagement of water with humans and other species rather than looking floods as problem .
Loft on the kitchen to increase the interaction between people and one can peep within the living room and also can experience the building structure and materiality which is completely exposed , instead of providing the balconies in every bedroom .
Void above the waterbody on first floor similar to small courtyard allows people in the house to peep down and look at the activities ,interact etc on the ground floor and also there is view of water of waterbody on ground floor.
Materiality
